The president’s financial arrangements leave the door open to conflicts and illegality.
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Late last week, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) released Trump’s May 2026 278-T report, a document listing all of the investment transactions made in the president’s financial accounts during the first quarter of this year. Trump is the first president to have ever triggered such a filing, and the scope of it was immense—thousands of transactions made over the course of only three months.
Alex Demas is a reporter at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he worked in England as a financial journalist and earned his MA in Political Economy at King's College London. When not heroically combating misinformation online, Alex can be found mixing cocktails, watching his beloved soccer team Aston Villa lose a match, or attempting to pet stray cats.
